Corset



4NTTED STATES PATENT Trice.

ISAAC NFVMAN, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CORS

SPGFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,323, dated March 29, 1887.

A pplicntion filed February 2l, 1887.

.To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that l, Isaac NEWMAN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of the corset; Fig. 2, a section through one of the intermediate sections cutting at right angles to the pockets; Fig. 3, a transverse section cutting through the side of the corset at the waist-line.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets which extend down over the hip.

So far as giving shape to the form is concerned it is unquestionably the fact that a cor- Set which extends down over the hip produces the best result; but in a full-hip person the liability to break or wrinkle over the hip frequently renders this class of corsets uncomfortable to the wearer; hence for such persons the hip of the corset is cut away, or so as to make substantially what is called an openhip or cut-away7 corset.

The object of my invention is to construct a corset which shall extend over the hip, be easy and comfortable to the wearer, and yet without the liability of wrinkling; and it consists in constructing the corset with sections between the breast portion and the back of equal width throughout from top to bottom, alternating with sections of varying widths, the sections of equal width throughout having stays therein parallel with the sides, running from top to bottom, the intermediate sections constructed with pockets running obliquely, those in one of the intermediate sections being the reverse inclination to those of the next intermediate section, and the pockets lled with fibrous stays, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the breast portion or section, and B the back or eyelet strip. Between the I breast portion and back the corset is composed Serial No. 222,331. (No model.)

of sections C, D, E, F, and G, each of these sections having its sides parallel and being of equal width from top to bottom of the corset.

Between the sections B C a section, H, is introduced, and between the. sections C D a similar section, I, is introduced, and between the sections D E another like section, J, is introduced, and between the sections F G is another similar section, K. The sections C, D, E, F, and G are each constructed with pockets extending from top to bottom and parallel with the edges of the section, and in the pockets stay or stays are introduced, as indicated in the drawings. The sides of the sections H, I, J, and K are curved to give the requisite spread to the corset from the waist-line downward and upward. These sections H I J K are made from two thicknesses of fabric, (see Fig. 2,) these thicknesses being stitched together by parallel lines of stitches, the lines being obliquely across from edge to edge, those ot' the first section, H, being oppositcly inclined to those of the next section, I, and so on,successive intermediate sections having the pockets oppositely inclined. These pockets are made sufficiently wi de to receive two cords, a a, of fibrous material.

The sections are stitched together in the usual manner by introducing the edges of intermediate sections between the two thicknesses of equal-width sections, and, as seen in Fig. 3, the cords being first introduced into the pockets of the intermediate sections.

Preferably I employ a fibrous material for the vertical stays; but this is not shown.

Between the two equal-width sections E F, and which come ou the vertical hip-line, I introduce an elastic gore, L, at the bottom and a similar elastic gore, M, at the top, and so as to give a certain amount of elasticity or yielding at the top and bottom. By thus constructing the corset of equal-width sections having vertical stays and variable-width sections having diagonal fibrous stays, thediagonal stays act as a brace to the vertical stays and aid in supporting those stays, and also the diagonal stays conform more readily to the irregular shape or curvature of the body and hips and prevent the tendency of the corset to wrinkle.

tions being of variable width to give the req 15 uisite curvature to the lines ofthecorset, the said equal-Width sections having vertical stays therein extending from the top to bottom, the intermediate sections having diagonal pockets and stays therein, the pockets on zo one intermediate section being oppositely in clined to those of the next intermediate seotion, substantially as described.

ISAAC NEWMAN.

VitnessesL FRED' C. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

